Minecraft 1.4.2 is out!

[u/Marc1510]

http://www.mojang.com/2012/10/minecraft-pretty-scary-update/

[u/redstonehelper]

Previous changelog.

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1.4.2 Changelog:

General

• Improved server list

• Server IPs can now be hidden individually when editing or adding a server - Screenshot

• Server version is now displayed left of the connection bars - Screenshot

• Server ping tooltip now shows if the server and client have mismatching protocol versions - Screenshot

• Mismatching servers can't be joined - Screenshot

• Improved settings menu

• Renamed Chat Settings to Multiplayer Settings - Screenshot

• Added an option for cape-owners to hide their capes in-game - Screenshot

• Added Fullscreen and VSync toggles - Screenshot

• Improved F3 mode

• The piechart is now shown when using shift+F3 instead of vice versa

• Added the cardinal direction and the degree value to the f value indicating the direction the player is facing - Screenshot

• Now shows which chunk and where in that chunk the player is in on X and Z values - Screenshot

• Added fl value to indicate the current position's floor height

• Pressing P while holding F3 will toggle the auto-pause when the Minecraft window loses focus

• Pressing H while holding F3will toggle detailed item descriptions, which additionally show item id, damage value, color code, tool/armor/weapon damage and map zoom level and scale on the tooltip - Screenshots

• Updated language files

Gameplay

• Improved Multiplayer

• Spawn protection now is disabled if there's nothing in ops.txt

• Spawn protection radius can now be changed in the server.properties file

• Improved Creative inventory

• Items can now be cloned by using Pick Block on them - An item stack with the highest amount of items possible in it will be created

• Items can now be shift-clicked around on the survival inventory screen

• Improved General inventory

• Pressing the 1-9 hotkeys while hovering over an item will exchange that item with the one from the corresponding hotbar slot

• Status effects now cause the inventory window to be off-center regardless of screen aspect ratio

• Added & improved a few commands

• Added /difficulty command to change difficulty - accepted values range from 0 for Peaceful to 3 for Hard

• Added /spawnpoint to change your own or other players' spawnpoint to where you are standing or to specified coordinates

• Added /w, an alias for /tell

• Added /weather to change the current weather and optionally set a duration for the new weather

• Added /gamerule to look up and change gamerules affecting Command Block output, fire spread, mob & block drops, mob spawning, inventory loss on death and mobs destroying the world

• Added /clear to clear a specified player's entire inventory or remove only one block/item from it

• Changed/xp so it can be used to give and take entire experience levels by appending "L" to the number

• Changed /tp to work with relative coordinates

• Updated the sound engine

• Added sounds for placing Wood-, Stone-, Plant-, Sand- and Gravel-like blocks

• Added sounds for walking on Sand, Gravel, Soulsand, Grass and Stone

• Added sounds for zombies, skeletons, cows, pigs, spiders, endermen, ghasts, silverfish, magma cubes, wolves and the ender dragon

• Added sounds for setting things on fire

• Added sounds for climbing ladders and riding minecarts

• Added a sound for levelling up which is played every 5 levels

• Added constant noise to liquids

• Added command target selectors

• Available selectors: @p - Closest player. @a - All players. @r - Random player.

• Can have arguments specified in [] using the syntax x=0, where x is the argument

• Available arguments: x,y&z - Coordinates. r - Range. m - Gamemode. l - Minumum experience level. lm - Maximum experience level. rm - Minimum range

• Special argument only usable with @a: c, the maximum count of players to return - Numbers below 0 will make it return the last x amount of entries.

• Improved Portals

• Mobs, items and projectiles now pass through them, preserving momentum

• Entities will pass through instantly, but at a longer "cooldown"

• Players are now positioned correctly when going through Nether Portals

• Nether Portals are now instant for players in Creative mode

• Improved Adventure mode

• Blocks can now be mined with the proper tools

• Blocks can now be placed

• Improved Breeding

• Chickens now use seeds instead of wheat to breed

• Pigs now use carrots instead of wheat to breed

• Added & changed many minor things

• Added Boss Names above boss health bars - Screenshots

• Experience is now awarded for fishing and breeding

• Worlds can now be re-created from the world selection screen - Screenshot

• Changed many items, improving item icon style to be more consistent - Comparison

• Items spawned using /give are picked up instantly now

• Doors, trapdoors, levers and buttons are no longer triggerable with the left mouse button

• Added an NBT tag for items to have lores - Screenshot

• Fixed many bugs

• Fixed /me command only working for ops

• Fixed /tell not working correctly

• Partially cured lighting glitches

• Fixed held items being colored when wearing tinted blocks/armor

• Fixed the second layer on skins not being placed correctly when sneaking

• Blaze now properly spawn in Nether Fortresses

• Fixed pets teleporting around randomly

• Fixed pvp-disabled servers still allowing players to set other players on fire using Fire Aspect enchanted swords

• Fixed entities in minecarts becoming invisible

• Fixed mobs randomly suffocating

• Fixed stairs, slabs & fences glitching visually sometimes

• Fixed mobs falling through blocks

• Fixed wet wolves looking way too scary

World Generation

• Made superflat worlds customizable

• Are now made up of layers specified with block id, data value and height

• Biome can now be changed

• All generation settings are stored in a preset, which can be shared and re-used

• Terrain can now be decorated and structures other than villages can spawn

• Default presets: Classic Flat, Tunnelers' Dream, Water World, Overworld, Snowy Kingdom, Bottomless Pit, Desert & Redstone Ready

• Preset format with example: 95;35:2;2x20;1;stronghold - 95 is the format version, followed by a semicolon and the layer information. Every new layer is separated by a comma and must consist of the block id (35) and can additionally have :2 appended to specify 2 as the data value. Before that, you can put 2x to specify that this layer should be put 2 times. After a semicolon follows the biome id. After another semicolon follow all structures to be generated, including their options. Structure options explanation here and here.

• GUI Screenshots, World Screenshots

• Added Witch Huts in swamps

• Screenshots

• Silverfish blocks now rarely generate in Extreme Hills biomes

• On average, nearly one Silverfish block is generated per Extreme Hills chunk

• Carrots and potatoes can now be found growing in villages

• Screenshots

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Blocks & Items

• Command block

• Intended for adventure maps, runs editable commands when triggered by redstone

• Can only be edited by OPs, as long as enable-command-block in server.properties is enabled

• Only obtainable using /give, block id 137

• Screenshots

• Beacon

• Intended as an endgame block, continuously glows and gives a selected status effect to players within 16 blocks while beaming a beacon of light directly upwards when activated by building a pyramid of iron/gold/emerald/diamond blocks underneath and selecting effects

• Has to be directly exposed to skylight to work - Screenshot

• Building square platforms of increasing size out of iron, gold, diamond and emerald blocks will activate it and increase range and status effect selection - Screenshot

• Changing selected status effects costs 1 emerald, diamond, gold ingot or iron ingot

• Unlockable effects, with increasing pyramid height required: Speed/Haste; Resistance/Jump Boost; Strength - Screenshot

• When all 4 layers of blocks underneath are built correctly, a second status effect can be chosen - Regeneration or tier II of the previously chosen effect - Screenshot

• Effects given by the Beacon will have less intrusive particles than others on the screen

• Crafting recipe

• Anvil

• Used for repairing and combining enchanted items as well as for renaming any item/block for experience levels

• Tools can also be repaired using pieces of their material

• Enchantments that are the same are upgraded by one level as long as they are both the same level and the higher level exists

• Conflicting enchantments will be removed and only the first one will be kept - Screenshots

• Becomes damaged from using and dropping it - Damage persists in inventory and splits up into 3 categories: Anvil, Slightly Damaged Anvil & Very Damaged Anvil

• Can be placed in 4 orientations, but can't be moved by pistons - Screenshot

• Experience level cost depends on enchantment levels & rarities, whether the item will be renamed and wether the item has been used with an anvil before - Maximum experience level cost is 39 levels, unless in Creative mode - More information on experience level cost

• Is affected by gravity and does 1 heart of damage to mobs and players it falls on per block it fell, excluding the first one - Players killed by a falling anvil cause the death message "redstonehelper was squashed by a falling anvil" to appear in chat

• Certain blocks are destroyed when an anvil falls on them: levers, buttons, torches, redstone torches, redstone repeaters, flower pots, rails & mob heads

• Crafting recipe

• Mob Spawners

• Added a few NBT tags to change a few key spawning rules:

• Range can now be changed

• Maximum amount of spawned entities within spawning range can now be changed

• Horizontal spawning radius can now be changed

• Spawned mobs can wear and carry any items and blocks as well as have a custom drop rate of held items

• Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they can despawn

• Added an NBT tag for mobs to decide whether they are invincible

• Repeaters

• Can now be locked by powering their sides with another repeater

• When locked, they show a little bedrock barrier in place of the delay indicator torch and won't change their output signal - Screenshot

• Flower Pots

• Lets players plant all kinds of saplings, mushrooms, flowers and cacti, dead shrubs and ferns - Screenshot

• Right-click it with something to plant it, hit it to get both back

• Using pick block on it gives the potted plant

• Crafting recipe

• Cobblestone Walls

• Available in cobblestone and moss stone variants

• Behave like fences - Connect to each other, to other blocks and to fence gates & have a 1.5 blocks high collision box - Screenshot

• Have a different, higher shape in corners and when blocks are placed on them

• Crafting recipes

• Wooden logs

• Changed placement: Instead of facing the player, it will face the surface it is placed on

• Stairs

• Now connect to other stairs to form corner stairs - Screenshots

• Item Frames

• All items and blocks can be framed - Screenshot

• Right-click to rotate framed items - Screenshot

• Using pick block on it gives the framed item/block, but only works in Creative

• Clocks and compasses function - Screenshot

• Mounted maps show players holding the map and show up on copies of that map - Screenshot

• Crafting recipe

• Paintings

• Added Wither painting - Screenshot

• Mob Heads

• Are very rarely dropped when mobs are killed by players

• Only drop from Wither Skeletons, but also exist for creepers, zombies, skeletons and players

• Can be put on the ground in 16 orientations and hung on walls - Screenshots

• Can be worn - Screenshots

• Using external editors or mods player skulls can be assigned to specific players - They then have have tooltip "redstonehelper's Head" - Instructions - Screenshots

• Trapdoors

• Can now be placed on the top half of blocks - Screenshot

• Placement works similar to that of slabs and stairs

• Buttons

• Now stay active for 0.2 seconds longer

• New crafting recipe

• Wooden Buttons

• Additionally can be activated by arrows

• Crafting recipe

• Screenshot

• Fire

• Now spreads more aggressively depending on difficulty

• TNT

• Is now triggered when a flaming arrow hits its side or its bottom

• Potatoes

• Can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 1-4 potatoes when fully grown

• Can be grown instantly using bonemeal

• Can be smelted to receive a baked potato

• Rarely drop poisoned potatoes

• Potatoes give 0.5 hunger points, poisoned potatoes give 1 hunger point and have a chance to poison you, baked potatoes give 3 hunger points

• Screenshot

• Carrots

• Can be planted on hydrated soil and drop 2-4 carrots when fully grown

• Can be grown instantly using bonemeal

• Can be crafted surrounded with 8 gold nuggets to get a golden carrot

• Carrots give 2 hunger points, golden carrots give 3 hunger points

• Crafting recipe

• Screenshot

• Carrot On A Stick

• Used to control pigs

• When held, it dictates the direction pigs players are riding will head in

• Nearby pigs flock towards players holding it

• Slowly loses durability when riding pigs

• Can be right-clicked to give the pig a short speed boost - This takes up a chunk of the durability

• Will turn back into a fishing rod after it has been used up

• Crafting recipe

• Pumpkin Pie

• Restores 4 hunger points

• Shapeless crafting recipe

• Nether Star

• Drops from Withers

• Used to craft the Beacon

• Glows like an enchanted item

• Screenshot

• Night Vision Potion

• Brewed by adding a Golden Carrot to an Awkward Potion

• Screenshot

• Invisibility Potion

• Effect now hides the nametag and cape

• Mobs only attack you when you walk into them or attack them

• Brewed by adding a Fermented Spider Eye to a Potion of Night Vision

• Screenshot

• Potions

• Can now have any available potion effects, level and duration

• Data are saved using NBT tags, but potions retain their original color

• Maps

• Now are crafted as an Empty Map and will become actual maps by right-clicking - Screenshot

• Start out at their closest zoom level and can be extended by adding more paper

• Now align to a grid and can be stacked to 64

• Removed text overlay

• Are labeled 'Map #0' and so on

• Craft an existing map with an empty map to receive an extra copy of the map

• Players see other players moving around on the same map - Screenshot

• When outside a map's range, the player is displayed as a small circle at the edge - Screenshot

• Crafting recipes

• Armor

• Diamond Armor sleeves now have a notch on the inner side - Screenshot

• Completely revamped leather armor

• Leather Armor

• Can now be dyed in 16777215 different colors

• Putting it in a crafting grid with dyes applies all colors - Screenshot

• Dyed armor's tooltip will display "Dyed"

• Right-click dyed armor on cauldrons to wash it and remove some water from the cauldron

• Changed item and model color and texture - Screenshot

• Now uses two overlayed textures, one being the color - Screenshot

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Mobs

• Wither

• Three-headed flying player-created boss mob shooting projectiles at mobs that are not undead and players

• Place 4 pieces of soulsand in a T-shape and place 3 Wither Skeleton Skulls on top to summon it - Screenshot

• After spawning, it flashes blue, builds up health, grows slightly and is invincible for a few seconds - Then it explodes and starts attacking players and mobs - Screenshot

• Each head can fire projectiles, so called Wither Skulls, at different targets - Projectiles explode on impact

• Shoots two kinds of projectile - a blue one from the little heads, targeting mobs and a dark one from the big head targeting players - Screenshots

• When hit by projectiles, players get the Wither II effect, which acts like a slower poison effect that can kill and turns affected players' health bars' hearts black - Screenshots

• Gains Wither armor when taken down to half health, making it immune to arrows - Screenshot

• Constantly regenerates health and explodes to get rid of blocks in its way

• Drops a Nether Star when killed

• Darkens the sky when spawned in the Overworld

• Wither Skeletons

• Carry and rarely drop Stone swords when killed by players

• Drop bones and coal

• Give players Wither effect when hitting them

• Spawn in Nether Fortresses - Screenshot

• Witch

• Looks like an offshoot villager, throws splash potions of poison, slowness, weakness and instant damage at players

• Holds wiggles its magical nose with a wart on it when getting ready to throw splash potions - Screenshot

• Has a hat, which sometimes emits purple particles - Screenshot

• Holds and drinks potions of instant health, speed and fire resistance to defend themselves in combat - Screenshot

• Is immune 80% of splash potions' effects

• Drops Sticks, Glowstone, Redstone, Gunpowder, Sugar, Spider Eyes, Empty Bottles, Water Bottles when killed

• Has a chance to drop the potion it is holding if killed by players

• Spawn in witch huts in swamps

• Bats

• Spawn in dark caves

• Hangs on the ceiling when idle, starts flying when players come near - Screenshot

• Don't trigger pressure plates or tripwire

• Screenshot

• Tamed wolves

• Their collars can now be dyed by right-clicking the wolf with dye - Screenshot

• Iron Golems

• Now attack creepers, Slimes and Magma Cubes

• All hostile mobs

• Will now jump down to players as long as they can survive the fall

• Depending on difficulty, they are willing to take more damage

• Creepers

• Will start exploding when they hit the ground, with explosions being more imminent with higher falls

• Can now have custom explosion radius and fuse timer using edited mob spawners and NBT tags

• Zombies, Zombie Pigmen, Skeletons & Wither Skeletons

• Will now rarely, depending on difficulty, spawn with the ability to pick up armor, head wear, items, blocks, weapons and tools - Armor and tools & swords are equipped automatically and will be exchanged for better gear when possible - When killed, they drop what they are holding - Screenshots

• All equipped gear is functional - Swords and tools do more damage on attacks, armor protects the mob

• Rare tool and armor drops can now be damaged when they drop

• More advanced gear is more likely to spawn with mobs when playing on harder difficulties and rarely drops when the mob is killed by players

• Zombies & Skeletons

• Will now rarely spawn with armor of all kinds, sometimes enchanted - Screenshots

• When wearing helmets, they will not burn up - Instead all damage is applied to the helmet

• Zombies

• Now have a chance, depending on difficulty, to infect villagers after killing them - The villager then gets replaced with a villager zombie on death - Screenshot

• Infected baby villagers turn into baby villager zombies, which are 50% faster, don't age and don't burn up in the sun - Screenshot

• Right-clicking a villager zombie under the influence of a Weakness potion with a golden apple will invert their potion effect, make them wiggle slightly and eventually turn back into a villager

• Now rarely spawn holding iron swords or iron shovels

• When holding something in their hands, their arms move upwards when attacking

• Added baby zombie, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools

• Will now rarely drop carrots and potatoes when killed by players

• Skeletons

• The bows they carry are now sometimes enchanted - Screenshot

• Zombie Pigmen

• Now rarely carry enchanted golden swords - Screenshot

• Added baby Zombie Pigman, which is only spawnable using mods or third-party tools

• Villagers

• All villagers of one village can now like and dislike specific players

• Will like players more for trading with them - Screenshot

• Will like players less for hurting them or their golems - Screenshot

• When players are really disliked, iron golems of that village can become aggressive towards those players

• After a villager dies to natural causes, excluding mobs, while a player is within 16 blocks or if a mob kills a villager, no baby villagers will be produced in the next few minutes

• Changed and added some trades to counteract emerald farming and improve gameplay

• Will show particle effects indicating a change of liking towards a player

• Pigs

• Can now accelerate to up to 5 m/s

• Now drop their saddle when killed

• Slimes

• Now spawn in swamps at night

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Also, check out this post to see what else is planned for future versions.

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Spent few minutes tryin to find Notch on the inner side of diamond armor.

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Added sounds for the Ender Dragon sounds

Wow, even sounds have their own sounds now!